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Environmental monitoring

Environmental monitoring

Etymology: monēre (lat.) = worn: something or someone that warns, an overseer

Monitoring = someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

= the act of observing something or to: keep watch, keep track of, keep under surveillance or check usually for a special purpose.

You cannot recognize, understand, improve or maintain what you do not or cannot measure.

Monitoring provides valuable tools that offer indicative measures of:

•Ecological and Environmental Resources•Economic Development and Growth•Social Structure and Dynamics.

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The scale of become wisdom

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Emissions from an industrial plant

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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security GMES Innovation in Global Public Goods

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Continuous monitoring equipment

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Example of data recording for 1 day and for 1 year of CO concentration